Geopolitical – Week of 10.2.11

By Stacy Mitchell Even as their big competitors are awash in capital, many locally owned businesses are struggling to secure the financing they need to

Photo Credit: Flickr Creative Commons/Midge Frazel By Common Dreams Amid ongoing controversy over NSA warrantless spying programs, another legal battle exposes the Obama administration’s willingness

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The American phoenix is slowly rising again. Within five years or so, the US will be well on its way to self-sufficiency

One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s

The Kenguru electric vehicle designed to be driven in a wheelchair The first Kenguru—the small, yellow electric vehicle designed to be driven in a wheelchair—was